Within the imperial palaces of the two great empires.
Xue Ye and Dai Tianfeng rose almost simultaneously.
They looked at Di Tian on the Sky Screen, their faces filled with shock.
Was this really the Star Dou Great Forest?
On the Heaven Dou Empire's maps, the Star Dou Great Forest was merely a gathering place for soul beasts.
The Star Luo Empire's records, too, noted only two hundred-thousand-year soul beasts.
Yet in the scene before them, powerful soul beasts appeared one after another.
Now, a Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King had even appeared.
That aura already exceeded their understanding of hundred-thousand-year soul beasts.
Outside Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
Dugu Yan looked at Di Tian and instinctively took a step back.
The Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul within her was instinctively sounding a warning.
"Ning Xian."
She stared at the black-robed figure.
"Is he a seven-hundred-and-eighty-thousand-year soul beast too?"
"No."
"Then just how powerful is he?"
Ning Xian did not answer immediately.
Di Tian on the Sky Screen was looking up at the Evil Emperor.
Even across that vast distance, Ning Xian could tell that his bloodline had already approached the level of a divine beast.
"Stronger than the Evil Emperor."
Dugu Yan drew a soft breath.
[Lord Evil Emperor is the strongest in the Sun Moon Empire!]
[The Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King is nothing more than a soul beast from the Star Dou Great Forest!]
[Lord Evil Emperor has seven hundred and eighty thousand years of cultivation. How could he possibly lose to him?]
[Lord Evil Emperor will definitely defeat the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon!]
These words reached the Sky Screen.
The Evil Emperor's enormous eye shifted slightly.
He looked at the bullet comments coming from the Sun Moon Empire, a trace of irritation growing in his eye.
"Here we go again."
"What business is it of yours whom I fight?"
"Truly tiresome humans."
The many soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest saw those bullet comments as well.
Xiong Jun scoffed on the spot.
"These humans actually think the Evil Emperor is the strongest."
The Myriad Demon King raised his branchlike arms.
"They don't even know Lord Di Tian's identity."
Bi Ji said softly, "Humans know too little about the core region."
Xiong Jun looked toward Di Tian.
"But Lord Di Tian is absolutely the strongest."
At these words, all the surrounding ferocious beasts nodded.
Gu Yuena did not correct him.
Her gaze remained on the Sky Screen.
Within the scene.
Di Tian took a step forward.
Ripples spread outward across the lake with his movement.
He slowly raised his hand.
Pitch-black dragon scales emerged on the surface of his arm, golden patterns flowing between the black scales.
The Evil Emperor's enormous eye abruptly contracted.
Spiritual power swept toward Di Tian like a black tide.
Di Tian stood where he was.
Golden light rose from within him, instantly blocking that spiritual power in front of him.
Boom!
A dull tremor rang out above the forest.
Rifts of rippling water appeared across the lake's surface.
Even the distant peaks shook slightly beneath this power.
The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm hid at the bottom of the Lake of Life, his ten eyes watching the surface, his body curled into a ball.
He knew.
Whether he could escape was no longer his to decide.
The Evil Emperor hovered in midair.
Di Tian stood beside the lake.
The two powerful soul beasts faced each other.
Golden words slowly appeared.
[The Evil Emperor entered the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest.]
[Di Tian appeared and stopped the Evil Emperor.]
Beneath the Sky Screen, all living beings were waiting for the two great soul beasts to truly clash.
Dugu Yan held her breath.
Ning Xian still stood outside Heaven Dou Royal Academy, calmly watching the firmament.
Silver light shimmered in Gu Yuena's purple eyes.
Xiong Jun and the Myriad Demon King looked toward Di Tian at the same time.
The Sun Moon Empire's soul masters continued sending bullet comments.
[Lord Evil Emperor, defeat him!]
[Show everyone the power of a seven-hundred-and-eighty-thousand-year soul beast!]
Within the scene.
The Evil Emperor looked toward Di Tian.
Black spiritual power gathered around his enormous eye.
Di Tian clenched his hand.
Golden dragon scales covered his arm.
Beside the Lake of Life, the atmosphere abruptly froze.
The Evil Emperor struck first.
At the center of his enormous eye, his pitch-black pupil abruptly contracted.
Invisible spiritual power swept down.
The trees around the Lake of Life stopped swaying all at once.
The ripples on the lake froze in place.
The soul beasts that had failed to retreat in time collapsed one after another, their consciousness forcibly dragged into a dark space.
Di Tian stood beside the lake.
His black robe did not stir in the slightest.
A dragon-shaped glimmer flashed through his golden eyes.
The spiritual impact struck before him, only to be blocked outright by a layer of black-and-gold light.
The Evil Emperor's eye shifted slightly.
"Your bloodline is indeed powerful."
"But what I cultivate is the spiritual origin."
"You can block it once, but how many more times can you block it?"
Dozens of phantom evil eyes appeared in the sky simultaneously.
Every eye was aimed at Di Tian.
The next moment.
Dense black beams rained down from every direction.
The sky, the lake, and the forest were all covered by the Evil Emperor's spiritual power.
Di Tian raised his right hand.
Black dragon scales spread rapidly.
Golden patterns flowed along his arm, finally converging in his palm.
He thrust his palm forward.
A black-and-gold dragon claw swelled explosively into the wind.
All the spiritual beams struck the dragon claw and shattered one after another.
The shock waves spread outward.
The Lake of Life sank dozens of meters.
Great swaths of ancient trees snapped in half.
The watching soul masters stared at this scene, even their bullet comments pausing for a moment.
[The Evil Emperor's spiritual attack was actually blocked!]
[Just where did that Golden-Eyed Black Dragon come from?]
[He blocked the Evil Emperor's attack just by raising one hand!]
[Could he be the true master of the Star Dou Great Forest?]
The Sun Moon Empire's soul masters also reined in their earlier excitement.
The Evil Emperor had ruled the Evil Demon Forest for many years.
They had never seen anyone block his spiritual attacks so easily.
Within the Sky Screen's scene.
The Evil Emperor stopped testing him.
His enormous eye rose high into the sky.
Ring after ring of distorted light spread from the depths of his pupil.
The space around Di Tian changed along with them.
The mountain forests vanished.
The Lake of Life vanished.
Between heaven and earth, only an enormous pitch-black eye remained.
Countless Evil Eye Tyrants emerged from the darkness.
They released their spiritual power simultaneously, trapping Di Tian in their midst.
Golden words appeared on the Sky Screen.
[The Evil Emperor's ultimate technique: Spiritual Illusion.]
[Forcibly alters the target's perception.]
[Those trapped within will suffer spiritual corrosion and impacts upon their consciousness simultaneously.]
Spirit City.
Bibi Dong watched Di Tian surrounded by countless evil eyes, her expression growing increasingly serious.
"Spiritual Illusion."
"This move alone would leave an ordinary Peerless Douluo unable to break free."
The dark-purple divine runes on the Rakshasa Demon Halberd flickered continuously.
Bibi Dong possessed two martial souls, the Death Spider Emperor and the Soul-Devouring Spider Emperor.
Her spiritual power likewise far surpassed that of ordinary Titled Douluo.
Yet compared with the seven-hundred-and-eighty-thousand-year Evil Emperor, there was still a gap.
Inside the Worship Hall.
Golden Crocodile Douluo stared at the Sky Screen.
"The Evil Emperor can make his spiritual world overlay reality."
"If you cannot shatter the illusion, no amount of soul power will help."
Qian Daoliu looked toward Di Tian, who was shrouded in darkness.
"He cannot trap that dragon."
As his words fell.
Di Tian raised his head.
A dragon's roar rang out from the depths of the Spiritual Illusion.
Black-and-gold light pierced the darkness.
Di Tian's body continued to grow taller.
Black dragon scales covered his entire body.
A pair of enormous dragon wings unfurled from his back.
In the blink of an eye, a black dragon hundreds of meters long appeared beneath the heavens.
His dragon scales were as black as ink.
Golden Divine Runes flowed along the edges of every scale.
Golden text appeared in turn.
[Di Tian.] [Race: Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King.] [Cultivation: 890,000 years.] [Beast God of the Star Dou Great Forest.] [Foremost of the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts.]
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